lustre silver

Hi.

I was at a craft fair today and spent some time talking to silversmith
Brett Payne. He was telling me about a new product called Lustre Silver.

I looked it up and it purports to have firestain resistance and anti
tarnishing properties.

I wondered if anyone on this news group has tried it yet.

Cheers, Ruth in the UK

tambling wrote:


.... talking to silversmith
Brett Payne. ..........telling me about a new product called Lustre Silver.
...... anti tarnishing properties.


More info follow links at

http://www.touchmetal.com/blog/argentium-blog.htm

It was possible to get it thru Finland...(Lustre Silver name hints of a
Finnish source) - this has now 'dried out'
....at the moment it seems that we in UK can only get it from the
States..

I have been trying to buy it for the last 6 months...Cookson's UK
claims that they will have in Sept - but this is not absolutely sure.
(due to having been building my workshop 24/7 for the last 2 years - my
search has not been 100% efficient)...........

Because of export/shipping costs - not worth bying small qnties. People
are now trying to buy it in bulk.

Perhaps you could contact me by e-mail...And we can try to sort
something out

regards
norwick

On Tue, 02 May 2006 03:35:03 GMT, "tambling"
wrote:

Hi.

I was at a craft fair today and spent some time talking to silversmith
Brett Payne. He was telling me about a new product called Lustre Silver.

I looked it up and it purports to have firestain resistance and anti
tarnishing properties.

I wondered if anyone on this news group has tried it yet.

Cheers, Ruth in the UK

It sounds like the silver-germanium alloy that Rio Grande sells under
the Argentium name.
http://riogrande.com/images/ArgentiumSterlingSilver.pdf

--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ

On Tue, 02 May 2006 03:35:03 GMT, "tambling"
wrote:

Hi.

I was at a craft fair today and spent some time talking to silversmith
Brett Payne. He was telling me about a new product called Lustre Silver.

I looked it up and it purports to have firestain resistance and anti
tarnishing properties.

I wondered if anyone on this news group has tried it yet.

Cheers, Ruth in the UK


I don't know what is involved in getting an import from the US, but
Rio Grande has a version of anti-firescale casting sterling.
Generally, we will get five or more people and make a mass order. Rio
Grande does have bulk discounts. That should make it a bit easier on
importing it, too. (www.riogrande.com)

I did some casting with this material several years ago. It works OK,
but I didn't like it very much. I do like the look of 'antique' silver
(black in the background). Also, it seemed to be less dense than
copper-silver sterling. This is very odd because the specific gravity
is the same out to the second decimal place!

Charlie

tambling wrote:
Hi.

I was at a craft fair today and spent some time talking to silversmith
Brett Payne. He was telling me about a new product called Lustre Silver.

I looked it up and it purports to have firestain resistance and anti
tarnishing properties.

I wondered if anyone on this news group has tried it yet.

Cheers, Ruth in the UK

Ruth

Carrs Silver based in Sheffield recently launched Carrs Lustre Silver
range which I have on my website www.bondsthejewellers.co.uk as it is
very new I have not had any feed back as yet.

Should you require any further information let me know and I will see
what I can find out.

Regards

Douglas Bond
Bonds the Jewellers

Argentuim was developed in England by Peter Jones. I will dig up the URLof
the argentium blog and the details of Peter's location.

Justine
"Charlie Leo" wrote in message
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On Tue, 02 May 2006 03:35:03 GMT, "tambling"
wrote:

Hi.

I was at a craft fair today and spent some time talking to silversmith
Brett Payne. He was telling me about a new product called Lustre Silver.

I looked it up and it purports to have firestain resistance and anti
tarnishing properties.

I wondered if anyone on this news group has tried it yet.

Cheers, Ruth in the UK


I don't know what is involved in getting an import from the US, but
Rio Grande has a version of anti-firescale casting sterling.
Generally, we will get five or more people and make a mass order. Rio
Grande does have bulk discounts. That should make it a bit easier on
importing it, too. (www.riogrande.com)

I did some casting with this material several years ago. It works OK,
but I didn't like it very much. I do like the look of 'antique' silver
(black in the background). Also, it seemed to be less dense than
copper-silver sterling. This is very odd because the specific gravity
is the same out to the second decimal place!

Charlie